Partners

With 16 million young Americans wanting or needing mentors, no one mentoring organization can possibly answer the demand. Working together, we can.

Our goal as a Partnership is to meet the nation's mentoring needs by teaming with a wide range of organizations, mentoring providers and mentoring experts.

MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership would like to thank our many partners and sponsors who have worked with us to combine resources, talents and influence so we can bring mentoring to scale.

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Partners

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
	Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest, largest and most effective youth mentoring organization in the United States. We have been the leader in one-to-one youth service for more than a century, developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on the lives of young people. Big Brothers Big Sisters mentors children, ages 6 through 18, in communities across the country. The organization's mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with mentors that have a measurable impact on youth. National research has shown that positive relationships between youth and their Big Brothers and Big Sisters have a direct and measurable impact on children's lives. By participating in our youth mentoring programs, Little Brothers and Sisters are: More confident in their schoolwork performance. Able to get along better with their families. 46% less likely to begin using illegal drugs. 27% less likely to begin using alcohol. 52% less likely to skip school.

Communities In Schools
	Communities In Schools (CIS) is the largest dropout prevention network in America and the leading community-based organization helping kids succeed in school and prepare for life. For 30 years, CIS has brought caring adults into schools to address children's unmet needs, providing the link between educators and the community. The result is that teachers are free to teach, and students – many in jeopardy of dropping out – have the opportunity to focus on learning. CIS serves more than two million young people annually in 27 states and the District of Columbia, with increased graduation and stay-in-school rates, increased attendance and better academic performance. The organization believes that every child needs and deserves these five basics: 1) a one-on-one relationship with a caring adult; 2) a safe place to learn and grow; 3) a healthy start and a healthy future; 4) a marketable skill to use upon graduation; 5) a chance to give back to peers and community.

California Mentor Foundation
	The California Mentor Foundation (CMF) was founded in 1998 to provide a unified, collective voice for California's youth mentoring programs. CMF provides funding, advanced training, quality assurance standards, and technology support to more than 400 mentor programs and promotes mentoring as the most effective means of preventing at-risk youth from making poor choices. The organization's goal is to grow the capacity of statewide mentor programs and increase mentor recruitment and retention in California to provide a mentor to every child who needs or wants one, supporting at-risk children who have been neglected and are a part of California's youth mentoring programs, such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Clubs, CASA, and many local after school mentor programs such as HOSTS. CMF focuses on these four critical areas essential to the success of each youth mentoring program: Building public awareness of mentoring. Securing financial support for grant making capabilities. Commissioning research to document the benefits of mentoring programs. Developing mission-critical tools and training needed to strengthen and expand regional and local mentoring program.

National Cares Mentoring Movement
	The National CARES Mentoring Movement has one purpose: to end the state of emergency in Black America by connecting you and other caring adults in your network to the mentoring opportunities presently in your community. The goal of National CARES is to recruit dedicated men and women who will commit at least an hour a week for a year to guide and encourage challenged youngsters in one-to-one or group mentoring relationships—where several adults spend time with a larger number of children. National CARES is not a mentoring organization, nor does it duplicate the efforts of other initiatives. Rather, it serves as a resource, linking caring adults to mentoring opportunities right in their communities. On a national level, NCMM consists of partner organizations such as the National Urban League, the 100 Black Men of America, Children's Defense Fund, the YWCA, the United Negro College Fund, the NAACP, major African American faith communities, fraternities, sororities and a host of other renowned organizations whose labor and reputations have tremendous influence on public policy and programs that affect young people.

National Network of Youth Ministries
	The National Network of Youth Ministries is a coalition of the nation's leading Christian youth-serving organizations and denominations collectively serving more than 100,000 churches, 250,000 adult youth workers/mentors and more than 3,000,000 teenagers. This coalition is represented in virtually every community in every state through local networks of faith-based youth workers representing diverse churches, denominations and youth-serving organizations. Active local chapters exist in more than 600 cities. The Network members collaborate as national and local partners to reach out, care for and mentor teenagers. In 2004, MentorYouth.com was launched to mobilize thousands of Mentor Recruitment Ambassadors to recruit thousands of adult mentors for the enormous numbers of youth on waiting lists. National Network of Youth Ministries has a cooperative agreement with The Department of Justice to find caring adults to serve as mentors. The organization also works in partnership with MENTOR.

National Human Services Assembly
	The National Human Services Assembly is an association of the nation's leading national non-profits in the fields of health, human and community development, and human services. It was organized formally in 1923 as the National Social Work Council (NSWC) and then became the National Social Welfare Assembly in 1945. Today, many of its member organizations are national offices of large networks of local health and human service organizations. Others are national research or resource organizations or national programs. The organization's mission is to engage leaders of the national nonprofit health and human service sector in collective efforts to advance the effectiveness of health and human services in the United States. The goals are to: Provide collective leadership to shape national human development/health and human service strategies. Serve as a catalyst for sharing of resources for the purposes of individual/professional development and organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Increase awareness of the importance of and trust in the nonprofit health and human service sector.

ServiceNation
	ServiceNation is a coalition of almost 200 national and local nonprofits, including MENTOR, reaching approximately 100 million Americans. The coalition works to inspire our leaders to expand meaningful community and national service opportunities for Americans of all ages and to invest in scaling proven service strategies to help address some of our nation's most important challenges, from the high school dropout crisis to the need for greater energy efficiency. ServiceNation recently had a part in passing the monumental Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which is about encouraging Americans to give back to community and country as a core ideal in our democracy.

Viacom
	Viacom, consisting of BET Networks, MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures, is the world's leading entertainment content company. It engages audiences on television, motion picture and digital platforms through many of the world's best known entertainment brands, including MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., COMEDY CENTRAL, Spike TV, TV Land, BET, Rock Band, AddictingGames, Atom, Neopets, Shockwave and Paramount Pictures. Viacom's global reach includes approximately 170 channels and 400 online properties in more than 160 countries and territories.